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tablespionful of ground cinnamon, one tumbler of brandy and wine, mixed—ﬂour enough to stiﬂen it—and one quart sf milk. which ought to be poured over the bread and left stand over night. to soften it. After mixing all together, tie it up in a large. square cloth. and boil it seven or eight hours. It must be turned frequently or the fruit will settle at the bottom. To serve this pudding elegantly, alcohol should be poured over it, and around the edge of tho dish ‘won which it is placed, and it should be lighted just as it is placed upon the table. A Baked Apple Editing—Half a pound of apples well boiled and mashed, half a pound of butter to a cream, and mixed with the apples before they are cold, and six eggs with the whites well beaten—halfa pound of line white sugar, the rinds of two lemons well boiled and beaten; sift the peel into clean water twice in the boiling; put a thin crust in the bottom and rims of your dish. Half an hour will bake it. .4 B-LL-(d Almond Pudding.—Boil the skins of two lemons very tender. and beat them very flue; beat half a pound of almonds in rose water, and a pound of sugar, very fine; melt half a pound of butter and let it stand till quite cold; but the yolks of eight eggs, and the whites of four eggs— mix them. and beat all together with a little orange water, and bake it in the oven. Ephrata Pudding.—Ingredients-three quarts of whort tleberries. half a pint of water, half a pint of molasses, a teaspoonful of salt, and as much flour as to make a tolerably

and purple asters, are only wild ﬂowers, and cost nothing but the trouble of transplanting. and a little nook in the garden. A constant bloom may be kept up from March to November, by introducing from our woods and ﬁelds the various beautiful ornaments with which nature has so pro fusely decorated them. Even in winter we may levy contri butions from the woods. As we said before, a deep plate. a

little earth from the woods, a few varieties of moss arranged

with an eye to color, one of the beautiful little linnea borealis, or partridge berry, with its vivid, green trailing leaves, and bright scarlet vines, or some of the thousand tiny plants, with their grey, red-veined leaves, will form a miniatur gar den. Ali the care that is wanted is to keep the moss moist. We have seen one of these little moss gardens in March gay with crocus and with dwarf tulips. As an experiment, a crocus bulb was inserted in a cleft of the moss, and in a few days shot up its lance-like leaves, rather to the surprise of the ex perimenter. Others were added, and a pretty little garden in a soup-plate was the result. But like too many amateurs, we are lingering too long over the result of gardening, rather than over gardening itself. Now to the 1/; f/JV‘ l'l‘l N-f'l/

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Out-of-dmrs Work—All ornamental shrubs, that need pruning, should be done in this month. particularly of the deciduous kind; all branches that are growing in a wild, dis

orderly way, should be shortcned, taking care to train them in such a manner that they will display their foliage and ﬂowers well when the blooming season comes; and all do stiﬂ' dough. Serve it with a sauce made of sugar, butter, cayed branches should be cut off close to where they are pro brandy, and a nutmeg grated—beaten light.
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protection can be easily given by forming an arch of pliable

hoops and sticks over the plants, and when the weather is exceedingly cold, throwing some straw matting, or some old pieces of carpet or quilts over the arch. When the weather is mild, however. it is advisable to give them as much free air as possible.

OUR GARDEN FOR JANUARY. FOIJCXATZLT for the health, beauty, and refinement of taste of our American ladies, gardening is becoming every year more popular. No home should be without its plot of flowers. if only six feet square, and no window or porch need, want drapery whilst every seed store furnishes for sixpence a paper, the seeds of the morning-glory, cypress. Brazilian

Hyaci'nths and Tulips that are planted for garden bloom ing, should be protected with a frame as just described, or with long. dry litter from the stalls, straw, fallen leaves, or branches of fern. It should be removed, however, as soon as the very cold weather is over. Decayed ﬁne tan is an excel lent covering for tulips and other bulbs. It may be put on

vim. scarlet bean. portulacca, miranda, &c., &c.; or, our woods

are draped with the Virginia-creeper and the wild clematis. A few cuttings of the daily rose, a slip or two of honeysuckle, a few seeds of larkspur. coreopsis, miguionetto, &c.; a little sprig of heliotrope, petunia, or verbena, repay one gratefully 2 an inch, or an inch and a half thick,just before the severe with their bright smiles, for the little care bestowed upon weather sets in, and need not be removed as soon as the them. And during these cold months, when, in the door other coverings, as it protects the roots from too much heat yards and gardens, the honeysuckles and climbing roses t and drought whilst ripening. All hardy bulbs should be reach up to the windows and the pillars of the piazza with s planted late in October, or early in November, to do them nerveless fingers, when the few poor leaves still left, shiver i justice; but if kept out of the ground later, they should have in the cold, or the stripped branches sway and wail in the lighter covering in proportion, as the season has advanced. wind: a garden, not so large or varied to be sure, as the sum For instance, tulips, which must have four inches of light mer one. but aﬂording more delight, perhaps, because more i covering in October, should have but three inches in Dscem~ uncommon. may be made to gladden us with its green beauty l her, two and a half in January, two in February, and one in our ordinary sitting-room. A few pots of the different i and a half in March; for many bulbs become so exhausted kinds of geranium, a rose or two, some sweet elysian, ‘ by being kept too long in the ground, that they have not taign lonette, heliotrope, to; a few hyacinths, tulips, jonquils, % strength to bear up through it, and at last die. This remedy kc" in glasses, brighten a window and lighten a heart that i is only suggested for those who cannot get their bulbs in bestows a few moments daily upon them. To these may be E the ground in time, for as we before said, they should be added a miniature garden in a dish, a shallow bowl. or a soup i planted in October or November. As a rule, be particular plate: unpoetical in itself, to be sure, but most wonderfully never to give less than one inch of covering over the crown, E beautiful when made into a garden; and examined through h or upper part, of any kind of bulbous or tuberous root. a microscope. has wiled away the tedious hours of many an x Crocusa or Snow-Drops, though theyshould be planted in

invalid, and many a tired seamstress, as she has glanced up September or October, may still be put in the ground, taking

for a moment from her needle at the multitudinous forms care to select dry, mild weather for the work, but they will and colors of a plate of moss. Our woods are too much ne not flower so well as if planted earlier. Great taste may be 5 glected. Many a flower-fancier will pay a fabulous price for x displayed in the ingredients of the various colors of the x a rare exotic, and pass over, with indifferent eyes, our impe N crocua, by planting them in patch“, each patch of one color, rial meadow lilies, and graceful nodding balsnms. To him &c.. Jzc. In fact, the ingenuity to be shown is endless. If

the delicate arbutus, and violets, and anemones, the golden xx it is desirable to increase the number of crocnses or snow neunculus. and snowy blood-root, the shell-tinted liver-wort, xQ drops, the roots should be taken up but once in two years; end waxy pipsessing. the fox glove. and pink roots. and sor~ Q but if they remain in the ground longer than that, the roots rein, the exquisite gerardias, and the_gorgeous golden rod, i“ will be small and the ﬂowers poor.

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